The 'Zoolander' Phone Puzzle;
Record Labels Attack the Hydra

By

Tim Hanrahan and

Jason FryThe Wall Street Journal Online

Updated Sept. 9, 2002 1:51 pm ET

Remember Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko, the "Wall Street" icon of mid-'80s excess? His cellphone was the size of a brick. Fifteen years later, Ben Stiller's male-model protagonist of "Zoolander" sports a phone barely larger than a thimble, which he delicately places to his ear canal. As Homer Simpson said in a different context, "It's funny because it's true."